Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Minnie Mouse Never Looked So Good!

Yet, similar to her mom, that doesn't keep her from trying the crafts with gusto!

As it turns out the age recommendation of 6 and up means the craft may not really be the best for a 3 year old! Who knew?

I helped her with the first few stitches, explained the entire process of sewing all the black squares, and then we'd move on to a different color, then I left her to work for a few minutes while I started dinner.

I came back approximately 4 minutes later, to this!

When she said, "Help me get the needle out" I thought, "Sure, how hard can that be."

Twenty-five minutes later I was still unthreading, unwinding, and unsewing the Minnie Mouse just to free the needle.

Success was finally achieved without cutting the yarn, which in hindsight really would have been the way to go.

I needed an Aleve after that.

When my daughter wanted to try with a different color the 25 minutes of delicate, impossible untangling passed before my eyes.

And I quickly steered her to a different activity.

And hid the Minnie craft so as to avoid future Minnie sewing madness!

In my daughter's defense, she did get farther than her 6 year old brother, considering he lost his needle before even starting his sewing project!

Did you know that Minnie and Mickey were both created in 1928.Minnie, who at the time was not yet named and loved the color purple, was designed in the fashion of a "flapper" girl. She was so probably intended to follow the trends of then-modern youth culture in an effort to add to her audience appeal.I enjoyed watching Mickey mouse clubhouse TV show